Need help for setting chores system and chart!

What are the ages of your children?

I don’t do well keeping up w/rewards, etc.  I need simple.  My kids are 9 and 12 and we spend about 1 1/2 hours on Sat. morning doing all the weekly stuff…vacuuming, dusting, bathrooms, emptying sm. garbages. They do all that and I do the kitchen/entry floor. 

Daily morning stuff is just them making beds, brushing teeth, cleaning up breakfast, and dog care. I just originally made a list of these things and said they need to be done w/in one hour of waking.  If they aren’t starting their school w/in one hour, they don’t get to watch a short show during lunch.  Now it’s automatic.

Also, part of their school list is to clean up school room, family room, and bedroom floors each day before playing.  I haven’t been consistent enough with this…mainly forgetting their room floors since upstairs!

They also put their clothes away when I set them outside their door. This summer I’m going to work on more kitchen duty. Good luck:)  Gina

We love the chore pack concept around here. I made my own for less than $5 and it has been amazing. My children each have one for morning and one for evening. It’s a plastic name badge holder that clips to their shirt. Their are cards inside with their chores on them, one per card. As they do the chores they slip the completed card in the back. When they get to their name they are done and hang it on a string beside the refrigerator. It has streamlined things wonderfully and requires little upkeep from me once in place ( other than reminding “chore pack time” at appropriate times).

Tara

I incorperated a “Managers of their chores”  chore pack by the Maxwells with a Sue Patrick workbox twist… 🙂  all the chores I have in the house. MOC .  Typed out and laminated. Some I found from different websites with clipart; others I had to type up on a peice of paper and print out and laminate.  It was ok though because my sons can read so I just gave my daughter the preschool ones. 🙂   This was put on color cardstock and lamintated and I then put velcro on them so they could go on the slots… Yes, this was some work but I only had to do it once.

   If you already know what they are going to do you could just list them on a daily/ weekly list and check them off as they go… We did this and I wish I could rememver the website. You could probably google.. Chore Lists and it would come up… It was good but if they can’t read a visual is better.  I do like the chore packs though.

          I hope that wasn’t as clear as mud… Sorry if you can’t see my vision.. 🙂

You could always laminate your chore chart and use a dry erase marker and have them check it off when they are done then you wouldn’t have to re do it.. The one I was thinking of had a list of things going down and the days of the week going across the top.   They just had to look at the day and go down that days list and check them off.

                   Good luck in what ever you find.. If I come across the one we used I will try to post it..

                 Blessings!

Betsy, so excited you ordered it. It has been great for our family. The book that comes with it is helpful. I would do as the recommend and add each step slowly, there is no rush. Be sure you think hard about what items you want to be ticketed items and that they are activities they can only do when they have a ticket. We just added the privilege pass and that has been great. It is so much more than a chore chart. We are spending more focused time with each child and I’ve felt our relationship growing even closer. We also have a six and three year old. Feel free to send me a PM if you have specific questions. enjoy!

I wanted a chore system that was reusable and didn’t cost me anything.

I went digging and found some 9-pocket page protectors (like people use for sports cards).

I think went around the house with my camera photographing chore areas or tools (vacuum, swiffer, whole rooms, each of their beds, etc.).

I made cards (same size as sports cards) with the photo and chore like “Vacuum Den” or “Swiffer Kitchen Floor.”

For awhile, I filled their pockets. Oh, each child has one page protector. One pocket has a card with their photo and name.

For our 3 oldest (13, 12, 9), they have to do 8 chores so their page protector is filled up. Our next 2 in age have to do 5 chores. Our youngest just shadows at this point. She is 2.

Anyway, they now choose the chores and put the cards in as they finish.

We do pay our children a weekly allowance, but they pay us (out of their allowance) when they don’t complete all chores. I keep up with it each day, but keep it very simple. Either you do all the chores and therefore don’t pay us for doing them for you, or you don’t.

After breakfast, they all go to do chores for 20 minutes or so while I clean up the kitchen (well one of them will sweep/swiffer the floor; I wash up any dishes).

At this point, they usually have at least half of their page filled up.

Around 4 p.m. I remind them Daddy will be home soon, and that they need to complete chores.

We have been using this system about a year now and it works for multiple ages and requires no writing on my part, mostly no nagging, and it travels even (we camp a lot).

One HUGE thing I did is each day of the week (Monday-Friday), I have a kitchen helper. Monday is my oldest on down to 2nd to youngest on Friday. This person helps me prepare meals for that day, and they also get a treat: game time with Mommy in the afternoon (one-on-one).

HTH